This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY), part of the weekly column, "Denim Spirit."
I enjoyed a long weekend in Detroit, gorging on NCAA Round One basketball games. Of the six games … [Read more...]

Spiritual Healing
This is adapted from a talk originally given for a Twelve Step recovery event in 2012
I am going to begin with a story that may make us a little uncomfortable but it rushes … [Read more...]

“The wound is the place
where light enters you.”
Those are the words a friend texted me out of the blue. The words are from Rumi (and a hundred other Wise Ones speaking in scores of languages … [Read more...]

I am an alcoholic and substance abuser who has been in recovery for thirty-four years (as of Good Friday, which is coming up in a few weeks).
While I deeply respect the anonymity tradition of AA, I … [Read more...]

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“Thoughtwall Café: Espresso in the Third Season of Life” is a novel that combines my best story-telling with the kind of honest spiritual probing … ...Read more